Prison Break Recap (4/3)…May Contain Spoilers

Tonight’s episode of Prison Break takes a look at the lives of some of the Fox River inmates, before they were behind the penitentiary walls.
MICHAEL & LINCOLN 

Michael and Lincoln weren’t always the best buddies they are today.  Before they both landed in Fox River, the brothers were somewhat estranged and lived two very different lives. After their mother died, and their father left, it was Lincoln who was responsible for raising his little brother.  Michael took his share of his mother’s insurance money and put himself through college, which led to his career as an architect, while Lincoln lived a life of petty crime. We see the brothers just prior the whole Stedman incident.  While Lincoln is desperate to have a relationship with Michael, Michael wants nothing to do with Lincoln who he is clearly ashamed of.

As it turns out, Lincoln owes some not so nice people $90k.  his debt can be forgiven if he agrees to kill someone that night in a parking garage…hmmm.

Lincoln refused at first saying that he’s not a killer, but eventually caves as the bad guy threatens Lincoln’s family if the debt isn’t paid immediately. 

Not wanting to go through with it, Lincoln reaches out one last time to Michael for help.  Too bad Michael is too busy almost making out with Veronica to take Lincoln’s call.  Don’t worry – they don’t.  Believe it, I wouldn’t be able to sit here typing this if they did.  I think I would still be washing my eyes out.

Not being able to get in touch with Michael, and desperate to get his debt relived, Lincoln enters the garage. His every move within the garage are monitored by the shady FBI agents – and the moves they couldn’t catch on tape, they alerted with the help of photoshop. The rest is Prison Break history.

Michael first hears of Linc’s arrest from Veronica.  Michael is not as quick to believe his brother’s innocence as Veronica is.  Michael found out about the $90k debt, and just assumes that Lincoln killed his old boss (Stedman) in order to get the cash.  Michael can’t understand how Lincoln could possible owe someone $90k.  Veronica drops the bombs of all bombs on Michael when she tells him that his mother’s insurance money, that paid for college, his loft, and the threads he is wearing never existed.  On that note, I’m all for starting a letter writing campaign to get the FRSP uniforms changed from prison blues to Brook Brothers – Worthy looks HOT in a suit.  Anyway, it was Lincoln who borrowed all that money and passed it on to Michael.  He just said it was insurance money because he knew Michael never would have accepted it otherwise, and Lincoln wanted a better life for his brother.

After hearing this news, Michael feels like he is ultimately responsible for Lincoln’s imprisonment and impending death.  If only Michael hadn’t taken the money…if only he had answered Lincoln’s call the night of the murder.  Yeah, Mikey wasn’t feeling too good.  This is the moment he decides that he needs to help his brother, because it was always Lincoln taking care of Michael. When they were younger, Lincoln used to make little origami swans for Michael.  The swans stood for familial obligation – watching out for your own.  Now the tables have turned and it’s time for Michael to start making little papers swans for his big brother. Michael agrees to visit Lincoln each day, but Lincoln informs him that he’s being transferred to Fox River, and magically a light bulb appears over Michaels’s head.

The plan to get Lincoln out of jail starts immediately.  Blueprints are laid out, articles are clipped about the people on the inside that could be of service – everything Michael will need to break his brother, and himself out of jail.  Except there is one problem – Michael can’t seem to remember all the intricacies of the jail.  Well thank god the boy got hungry, because without the tattooed covered delivery girl, Michael might have never been able to move forward with his prison break.
With his tattoos in place, and all suited-up, Michael picks up his guns and walks towards the bank and his new life.
SUCRE

The first time we get to meet Sucre is when Lincoln runs into him, literally, after the garage shooting.  Sucre and his boys are hanging out when he notices a gorgeous woman looking his way.  For Sucre and Maricruz, it was love at first sight. Although his cousin convinces him that Marivruz is out of his league,
Sucre doesn’t want to hear it and plans to take Maricruz out for a romantic dinner.  After his cousin reminds him that he’s broke, Sucre decided to rob a convenience store.  In true Sucre style, he only takes the $50 he needs to take his lady out for a fancy supper.  Well the date must have gone well because Sucre and Maricruz quickly fall in love and start talking about their future…together.  Sucre tells his friends and cousin that he wants to propose to Maricruz…once he gets money for a ring.  Knowing that’s going to be some time, Sucre decides to hit the liquor store again.  This time he needs a little more than the $20 the cashier is offering.  After apologizing to the cashier for holding him up, Sucre is busted by the cops.  It wasn’t the cashier who called the cops, but rather Sucre’s own cousin.  Bastard.  Guess the cousin wanted Maricruz all to himself.
SARA

Looks like the good doctor had some major issues prior to her arrival at Fox River.  Sara was a bit of a junky, which I have to say is convenient, seeing she works near all those free meds.  While high as a kite, Sara witnesses a kid get hit by a car.  Too bad she’s too screwed up to do anything to help the kid. 
We next see her 18 months later telling her story to her fellow recovering addicts.  Sara is ready to get back to work, and she wants to help people get from where she was, to where she is now.  One of her fellow Looks like Sara isn’t the only recovering addict on staff at Fox River. Bellick is in the same recovery group.  After hearing that Sara is ready to go back to work, a much more softened Bellick informs her of an opening for a doctor at Fox River.  He offers to take her to dinner to discuss it more, and in doing so Bellick offers up the best line of the night: “I got a gift card to the Red Lobster just over the interstate…” Ha.  Classic!!

C-NOTE

As it turns out, C-Note really was in Iraq.  After doing a few deeds for his CO, C-Note is repaid by a relatively safe assignment as a prison guard. While on duty, C-Notes witnesses the torture of some of the prisoners. After he files a report, and insists that he will take his claims of prison torture to a higher  level, his CO has him arrested for smuggling black market goods into Iraq.  After his dishonorable discharge, C-Note heads back home but struggles to find a job.  Although very reluctant but equally as desperate, C-Note agrees to deliver a truck full of stolen goods.  The cops are alerted, and C-Note is arrested.  Not wanting to risk losing his family, C-Note tells his wife and daughter the his unit was being redeployed to Iraq.  His brother-in-law is the only one that knows the truth.

T-BAG

The night started off pretty good for T-Bag.  He had dinner over at his girlfriend’s house, and hung out with her and her children after dinner. The way T-Bag looked at his gf’s kids was so unsettling.  His girlfriend seemed to be happy to have this sweet man in her life, well, at least she was happy until she turned on the TV and saw T-Bag’s picture on America’s Most Wanted.  It seemed to go down hill for her after that.  The line “it’s not you, it’s me” wouldn’t really cut it, so she turned him in.  The two later meet up again, but this time T-Bag is behind bars.  He tried to tell her that he was reformed the moment he met her, but by turning him in, he went back to being the crazy, sick bastard that killed six students in Alabama. And just to show manipulative he can be, T-Bag tries to make his ex-girlfriend feel guilty for turning him in. That guy has some serious issues.
BIG News Tonight on Prison Break…Definitely Contains MAJOR Spoilers

There was one MAJOR development tonight.  For those of you who maybe doubted Lincoln’s innocence, doubt no more. Terrence Stedman is alive and well – living in Montana.  So whose dead body did they dig up from the ground?  Not sure, but it wasn’t the Vice President’s brother. Looks like Terrence knew exactly what he was doing.  He even went as far as to remove all his teeth so they could “id” the body in the event that some chick lawyer and her crazy lawyer friends wanted to pursue it further.

All and all I thought this was an Ok episode.  It didn’t really give me the insight I was hoping for.  It was nice to see Worthy in those suits though.

Just so you know, I’m literally falling asleep at my computer.  So if you see any mistakes, or typos, please forgive me….I will do my best to fix it all up nice and pretty in the morning.

Night…night